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To: Akula who wrote (335)	9/14/1999 7:53:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Anyone can see the Triceratops and the rino have much in common. Yes thats what I thought... the rhinos are my favorite, I saw some when I visited Kenya and Tanzania. The first thing you think is that this rhino is a prehistoric animal that never evolved... he only eats plants. But apparently the skeletal structure of the dinosaurs is more akin to the birds of today and not the land mammals, scientists say that birds are todays dino descendants. So maybe its just a coincidence.

To: Akula who wrote (335)	9/14/1999 8:00:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 69300

convergent evolution Good point, to me it does seem as if intelligence is usefull enough, even in small quantities, that it would be selected for. It may be that organisms need to become complex enough to have a way to store the new information. Humans are very very lucky to have evolved on a planet which promotes the increase in complexity by remaining hospitable for a long time but also to have undergone enough catastophe to mix up whos on top once in a while. TP - I was studing a new analysis of how important to life the moon is. If two protoplanets had not collided 6 billion years ago to form an earth/moon system the wobble of the earth would have been much greater than it is today and a stable eco-system would be problematic.